Briefs

June 16, 2007

TENNISNadal loses in grass-court tourney French Open champion Rafael Nadal was knocked out of the Queen's Club grass-court championships in London Friday, losing 7-5, 7-6 (0) to the 106-ranked Nicolas Mahut of France. Second-seeded Andy Roddick advanced to the semifinals after defeating Marin Cilic 6-4, 7-6 (5). He will face Arnaud Clement, who defeated Ivo Karlovic 7-5, 6-4 in another quarterfinal. NHLLewis fired as Bruins' head coach Dave Lewis is out as the Boston Bruins' coach after just one season. General manager Peter Chiarelli announced Friday that Lewis will be relieved as head coach and reassigned to another position in the organization. Associate coach Marc Habscheid also will be reassigned. NBAPistons unload Delfino for draft picks The Detroit Pistons traded guard Carlos Delfino to the Toronto Raptors Friday for second-round picks in both the 2009 and 2010 NBA draft. Delfino, an Argentina native who was drafted 25th overall by Detroit in 2003, averaged 4.4 points, 2.4 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 180 games with the Pistons. During the 2006-07 regular season, the 6-foot-6-inch guard averaged 5.2 points and 3.2 rebounds in 16.8 minutes while appearing in all 82 regular-season games. He played in all 16 of Detroit's playoff games, averaging 2.3 points and 1.3 rebounds in 8.4 minutes. Delfino, 25, is set to make just over $1.8 million next season. NFLPlayers' union shuts down Raider practice The Oakland Raiders canceled the final week of their offseason training program Friday after complaints from the NFL players' union about the intensity of the practices. In a brief statement, coach Lane Kiffin said the players' union believes the Raiders' offseason program violated league rules on practice standards. The Raiders won't hold next week's scheduled offseason activities, which were expected to be mostly weightlifting sessions. Oakland wrapped up a voluntary minicamp on Wednesday under Kiffin, a former assistant coach at Southern California. He had just one season of NFL training camp experience as an assistant in Jacksonville in 2000. COLLEGE BASKETBALLEx-Purdue star to coach at St. Joe Jannon Lampley, former Big Ten player of the year at Purdue, was named women's basketball coach Friday at St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer. Lampley, then known as Jannon Roland, was a three-year starter and helped the Boilermakers to three Big Ten championships and to the NCAA Final Four in 1994. She was the conference's player of the year in 1997 and finished her career with 1,662 points. TRACK & FIELDEthiopian breaks women's 5,000 mark Meseret Defar of Ethiopia broke the women's world record in the 5,000 meters, finishing in 14 minutes, 16.63 seconds at the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, Friday. She set the previous mark of 14:24.53 in New York last year. It was the 56th world record set at Bislett Stadium since 1924.